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South Korea: Spoiled Korea Air exec spared jail

by Our Foreign Desk

PAMPERED former Korean Air executive Cho Hyun Ah was released from jail yesterday after her one-year jail sentence for endangering air safety was reduced to 10 months and suspended for two years.

Ms Cho, the daughter of Korean Air chairman Cho Yang Ho, flew into a tantrum on board a New York-to-Seoul service last year when a flight attendant served her macadamia nuts in a bag instead of in a bowl.

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